Year: 2017

Pacific Princess Launched at Campbells shipyard December 1978 . She was a beautiful seiner. One of a few still fishing in the Western Pacific . Send in your pictures to [email protected]

Great shot of the South Seas. Actually picked up this picture at Ed Ganns office in San Diego. They were extremely polite and gave me a bunch of photos. Send your pictures to [email protected]

This is one of my Magazine photos i saved as a kid. Must have been in the late 70s, Still one of my favorite King Oscar rolling net . Seiner caught lots of fish i believe its still fishing under the name El Ray. Please send in your pictures to [email protected]

Love this shot of the Raffaello , I’m a sucker for the San Diego look or the original look from Martinac. I get times have changed but the seiners will never look the same. Raffaello really turned out to be a work horse caught tons of fish in its time. Thank you to Robert Silva for sending this shot in .  Send in your pictures to [email protected]

Nice shot of the Venturous in a set. This photo taken in late 80s not long before she sank off of Panama shortly after unloading . Built by San Diego marine . Send your pictures in to share. [email protected]

Great shot of the Conquest, if i remember right this photo was taken in early 80s in Western Pacific. Conquest was built at Campbells shipyard in December of 1973. Owned by Joe Madruga a true Bigwig in the Tuna fleet owner of a number of classic seiners. Please send in your pictures to [email protected]

Embarcadero in the 80s. This is one of my many newspaper articles that i use to save, unfortunately i believe most of these seiners were in the process of being sold. So lets have it share your photos newspaper articles ? Send them to [email protected]

My best photo ever, because it was my first. Mid 70s unloading aboard the Proud Heritage looking across at the Dominator. Wonderful days as a kid to run around in San Pedro. And that it when it all began collecting photos. Send me your pictures to [email protected] or send me pictures you have collected over the years.

Want to send a Huge Thank You to the Neves Family for sending in this photo. Classic shot of the Constitution I believe she was launched in 1952 by Campbells shipyard. 465 tons of capacity and was the first Seiner to carry a Sea Plane . My expert at the bait boats says it was converted in October 1959 Again Thank You to Neves Family, this is the way it works. Send in your pictures to [email protected]

One of my favorite pictures I have ever taken. Loved these Seiners too bad the Uncle Louie wasn’t there. Castagnola family was a very influential family in the fleet. Again one of my fathers favorite families, he never said a bad word about the Castagnola family. And that’s enough for me . Send me your favorite pictures or email me so I can make arrangements to get them from you . [email protected]